What is the NIH Policy to Enhance Diversity and its History?
NIH training grant programs have long required a Plan for the Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minorities. The NIH has also had research supplement programs aimed at the recruitment of underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities into the scientific workforce. In recent years, the NIH has broadened its efforts in recruitment to include other underrepresented groups such as individuals from economically, socially, and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. The NIH policy encouraging the recruitment of individuals who will increase the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences workforce was first included in the program announcement for Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research PA-05-015, released on November 19, 2004. It was subsequently included in the program announcement for the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional Research Training Grants (T32) PA-06-468, released
